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I'm Frank. I play guitar. There's other stuff too, of course. I'm a doctoral candidate, I'm writing a horror novel, a pop-up book on death, and a study of the blues in Japan. You didn't come here for that, though. So mostly its just guitar.
I played for 20 years before realizing that I'd been going in circles for much of that time. A few years ago I shook some calcification loose by switching to an open tuning and studying the art of Slide Guitar. To capture some more power, I cut a slide from the barrel of a 12 gauge that had once been issued to a prison guard in south Georgia. To reach for a deeper and more powerful sound, I switched to a 12 string guitar. When I'd ripped my right hand to shreds, I added fingerpicks. That's where we are now.
I don't sing much. I don't talk much. I won't be dancing around at all. Give me a chair and a place to put my drink.
What people say:
If you think a 12-string is just a toy for guitar nerds, think again. In the hands of Mad Whiskey Grin, the 12-string acoustic is a palette capable of producing a variegated range of colors and shadings.
And it just might be a weapon.
---Robb Holmes, WUGA, 91.7FM
He plays a wonderful style of acoustic guitar reminiscent of the late John Fahey, and exhibits a blues influence that is strictly old school and along the lines of Robert Johnson and Elmore James. Very cool stuff, indeed.
---Gordon Lamb (The Threats and Promises Guy)
His unique brand of twelve-string instrumental music blends highland celtic strings and southern folk music into a product not far off the mark from zeppelins bron-y-aur stomp or black mountain side. ...i know of no finer twelve-string gunslinger in the athens-clarke county area.
---The pointlesswaltz guy
A blistering, 12-string, finger-picking slide-guitar assault
--Nelson, Team Clermont
...so good it's just not fair.
--Phil Rossi, Rhythm on the River
"Mad Whiskey Grin" is the shizznit, yo. I mean he's the mad bomb-diggity. You know what I mean.
---Mary, "band follower"
If you want to know more, drop me a line
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